Attention: we live about 30 minutes by car outside of Cologne (a place called Schmitzhöhe-Lindlar). By train you could go to Bergisch Gladbach or Engelskirchen, where we could eventually pick you up. It is very green here...if that doesn't bother you, you are very welcome :-)

Me is we: We (Kathrin and David) met each other through CS (see our links to our past CS-experiences)...and ended up marrying each other and having two daughters: Merel (born february 2016) and Frida (november 2019). Sometimes David's 18-year old son Duncan is here too, depends on the moment... We are both vegetarian, love nature, stories, yoga, meditational archery, hiking, bees trees, life...and we really like languages...
All the time enjoying music, creating, reading, diving into nature, writing, dreaming, exploring...

Our old profiles with references:
www.couchsurfing.com/people/katixera
https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/david_cornette

Please read where we live (My home)!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

We have travelled and hosted quite a bit through couchsurfing before we met each other and it doesn't matter if we host or couchsurf: we love this way of traveling because we feel like it enriches the experience of the journey as well as your everyday life.

from wikipedia: "CouchSurfing is not a 'free' bed, it is an exchange, - it is about the experience of meeting and spending time with similar minded people. 'What can you bring and what can the host offer in the time you share'. You should be looking for a host to stay with and not just a couch to use."

Interests

• arts
• writing
• singing
• dancing
• vegetarian
• organic food
• yoga
• hiking
• languages
• mountains
• travelling
• nature
• life
• waldeinsamkeit
• instinctive archery

Music, Movies, and Books

- Music: world music (Arabic, African, Klezmer, Balkan,...) singer-songwriter, rock, ambient, bal folk, goa, black metal, dub, ska...
- Movies: Atanarjuat, Bruce Parry´s Tribe, bir zamanda Anadolu'da, Khadak, Theeb, L´auberge Espagnole-Trilogy, Der Schamane und die Schlange, the revenant, the Dark Crystal, Princess Mononoke, Weit...
- Books: The Southern Reach Trilogy, Die Vermessung der Welt, Max Frisch's Homo Faber, De ontdekking van de hemel, Andrew Dalby´s Dictionary of Languages, Imperium (Christian Kracht), Euphoria, french graphic novels

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Kathrin: birth of our daughters at home
David: being present at the birth of my children

Teach, Learn, Share

teach: see below

Kathrin:
- learn: I want to learn to sew my own clothes, improvise on my flute (the real technique) and maybe beat-boxing on my flute

- share: If your back hurts from carrying your backpack I could show you some yoga exercises which might help

David:
- learn: how to make all the people in the world love each other..., to speak and understand all the languages in the world (I know, I ask a lot)

- share: stuff about solitary bees; a good hiking trail, playtime :)

What I Can Share with Hosts

An open minded heart

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Chile, Colombia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Ecuador, England, France, Guatemala, Ireland, Israel, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Peru, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, Wales

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium, France, Germany